I guess we need to post the Onion 'No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens link every time this happens now.

Edit to remove stupid-long Onion URL that appears in the thread even though I post a regular short link - you'll just have to go to the Onion yourself to read it as I can't be bothered to fix their stupid-ass mega long link nonsense.

hey just a heads up if somebody asks you to not politicize something “at this moment” it’s because they’re fully aware the position they’d ordinarily so vehemently defend would, in that very moment, make them look like a colossal piece of shit

I guess we need to post the Onion 'No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens link every time this happens now.

Edit to remove stupid-long Onion URL that appears in the thread even though I post a regular short link - you'll just have to go to the Onion yourself to read it as I can't be bothered to fix their stupid-ass mega long link nonsense.

Thanks. I didn't see that button, but I just copy-and-pasted the (reasonably short) URL displayed at the top of my browser. I didn't put any {URL} tags around it as normally does that automatically. But when the post appeared it was one of those mega-long things that looks as though an entire webpage has been squeezed into the URL - and it semi-crashed the page so that there was no {edit} button available. I had to do the trick where you get a template edit URL and then patch in the post number to fix it.

Maybe it's something to do with whatever it is on that parses the URL and its associated page, so that it can turn a URL into a headline? I don't want to repeat the experiment now and lock the thread up though.

The leader of a white nationalist militia says Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz was a member of his group and participated in paramilitary drills in Tallahassee.

That opens up all kinds of new questions. Such as:

1. Were there good people on both sides of this school shooting?
2. Can he be prosecuted, since he was a member of the well-regulated militia?
3. Did this even happen, or was it just another false flag with crisis actors covered by NDAs?